ironically u.s. support for democracy promotion in egypt is dwindling as a time -- at a time when the people of egypt are increasingly dissatisfied with the current regime. "the washington post" story yesterday reported that, quote, a protest in alexandra last month was attended by 4,000 people. a high number in egypt, where plane people are afraid to join demonstrations, end of quote. the president of the international rerepublican institute who has history of caring about religious rights and freedoms echoes these sentiments about the administration's human rights and democracy promotion policy in egypt and elsewhere around the world. in recent testimony before the house committee on foreign affairs he said, and i quote, a lack of strong consistent leadership from the top of the administration has become apparent to the bureaucracy. one result is the cutting or slowing of funding for democracy programs in countries like belarus, cuba, egypt, iran, north korea, venezuela, zimbabwe. another consequen